Pavia, September 14 - 17, 1998

Index Chairmen Program committee Scientific secretary Aims of the workshop Topics Program Workshop site Workshop modalities		PLANNING AND PROBLEM SOLVING Maurizio Cardaci Dip. di Psicologia, Università di Palermo Viale delle Scienze, I-90100 Palermo, Italy phone: +39 91 485738 fax: +39 91 6521010 e-mail: cardaci@biblio.unipa.it Salvatore Gaglio, panel co-ordinator Centro Studi sulle Reti di Elaboratori - CNR Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Università di Palermo Viale delle Scienze, I-90100 Palermo, Italy phone: +39-91-6566111/238111 fax: +39-91-488452 e-mail: gaglio@diepa.unipa.it Ingrid Isenhardt Department of Informatics in Mechanical Engineering (IMA/HDZ) University of Technology (RWTH) Dennewartstr, 27 - D-52068 Aachen, Germany e-mail: Isenhardt@hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de Massimo Savini DIS, Università di Pavia Via Ferrata 1, I-27100 Pavia - Italy phone: +39 382 505353 fax: +39 382 505373 e-mail: savio@ipvvis.unipv.it HOT POINTS Reactive Planning or Classical Planning? The role and the level of representations; Symbolic or subsymbolic processing? What about hybrid processing? Very limited results are reported in applications to autonomous systems; The functionality of an agent could be seen as an "emergent property" of the interaction with a dynamic environment (P. Maes); Is the distributed approach a key factor? What could we learn from animal behavior? Could we able to implement artificial agents having the same dexterity? What is instinct? It also involves complex plans; How an agent learns to solve problems? What about real time performance? Some functionalists stress that problem solving starts only when the organism is capable to perceive that there is a disequilibrium or a perturbation in its envinronment. If the organism doesn't recognize the perturbation, it risks to be overcome. How can organisms detect perturbations by means of their environmental representations? Is problem solving a bottom-up or a top-down process? Which is the role of analogical mapping? How could an internal, motivational state of the organism affect the search of the solution? Is problem solving essentially based on parallel information (Gestalt restructuring) or does it consist in a sequential planning in the search for a solution path? What have to do planning and problem solving with perception? What has to do perception with planning and problem solving? Where should bottom-up (data driven) and top-down (goal/task driven) processes meet? Which connection exists between computer vision systems and decision theoretic tecniques?
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